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How do I create a public certificate for use with PayPal Encrypted Website Payments?

Before you can use Encrypted Website Payments, PayPal requires that you upload your public certificate to verify the authenticity of the encrypted code. PayPal recommends using OpenSSL to create your public certificate.

OpenSSL is freely available at openssl.org. If you're using Windows, download the Win32 version of OpenSSL. Once you've downloaded OpenSSL and added it to your PATH, the certificate generation is a two-step process:

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